Labour And The Challenges Of Globalization: What Prospects For Transnational Solidarity?

by Andreas Bieler

2021-01-10 07:34:03

This book examines the main challenges facing the world labor force and possible responses from trade unions.The working classes across the world are feeling the effects of globalization and the race to the bottom that it encourages. Core jobs for wo... Read more
This book examines the main challenges facing the world labor force and possible responses from trade unions.The working classes across the world are feeling the effects of globalization and the race to the bottom that it encourages. Core jobs for workers in the developed world are being outsourced to countries where pay and conditions are terrible and union membership is often forbidden. Much of the work of the world economy is now taking place in a burgeoning informal sector, making worldwide organization of labor very difficult.Case studies from 11 different countries, including China, Germany, Canada and South Africa, illustrate what is happening and show how workers and trade unions can successfully adapt to the neoliberal world. Less

Book Details

File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.8 in
Print pages360
PublisherPluto Books Ltd
Publication date February 20, 2008
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780745327563

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